Crime and Safety

The Rock was filled with opportunities to learn about personal safety when National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week (NCAAW) and Allstate Reality Rides came to it on Monday. The University of Miami is one of more than 1,000 campuses to participate in NCAAW, where students will participate in different awareness events throughout the week, beginning with a…

The City of Coral Gables held a Swearing-in Ceremony for newly appointed Police Chief Edward J. Hudak, Jr. on Friday, Oct. 16, in the Donna E. Shalala Student Center Grand Ballroom. The hour-long ceremony consisted of an invocation from former pastor of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Coral Gables, Arnold Perry, oath remarks from City…

With the recent mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon in mind, Scott Burnotes, director of the Office of Emergency Management of the University of Miami, taught faculty members and students how to react during such crises on Tuesday night. It was a conversation no one wanted to have, but administrators felt was…

The University of Miami released its annual crime and fire safety report on Thursday. It documented a decline in liquor and drug law violations from 2013-14, and a rise in reports of a forcible sex offense, domestic violence and dating violence. The report is made available each year through the Jeanne Clery Act of 1990,…

Liquor and drug law violations and arrests both declined from 2013 to 2014 at the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus, according to the annual crime and fire safety report released by the school Thursday. Reports of a forcible sex offense, domestic violence and dating violence all increased from 2013 to 2014. Forcible sex offenses went…

Eight years after it was approved by the Miami-Dade County Commission and five months after a ceremonial groundbreaking in April, a pedestrian overpass over highway U.S. 1 recently began on-site construction. Eight University of Miami students have died while crossing the six-lane highway since 1989. Completion is scheduled for May, according to Miami-Dade County Public…

An unidentified individual entered, ransacked and vandalized a bus that was parked in the Green Parking Lot under the Metrorail on Ponce de Leon Blvd. in the early hours of Sunday, Sept. 6. The shuttle bus is owned by Academy Bus LLC, a transportation service that the University of Miami uses. According to a police…

The University of Miami Police Department’s (UMPD) annual Safety Fair took over the Rock on Thursday afternoon and brought together a variety of educational resources for students, faculty and staff. This year’s fair was unique because it generated awareness for UMPD’s new UGuardian app. The free app, available for iOS and Android devices, allows users…

On Tuesday a jury awarded $8.6 million in damages to the families of two international students from China who were attending UM when they were struck and killed by a car on Oct. 16, 2013. Ying Chen and Hao Liu were crossing Kendall Drive and Southwest 68th Court in Pinecrest on the way back to…

UPDATE, Aug. 29 1:32 p.m.: The university has announced that, with the storm’s dissipation, they do not expect any closures or disruptions Sunday or Monday. Normal operations will continue as planned Saturday at the University of Miami, with preparations for tropical storm Erika’s expected landfall on Sunday underway. The decision on potential changes to the school’s operations on…

Two months after a University of Miami student was hit by a car while crossing San Amaro Drive, the school has approved funding for the pre-design of a safety project for the road. According to Student Government President Alessandria San Roman and President-Elect Brianna Hathaway, the project will look at possible safety measures for the…

In its 45 years of service, the University of Miami Police Department (UMPD) has reached its lowest amount of annual crimes at 179, compared to 454 in 2003. In the 2014-15 academic year so far, there has been an average of 25 crimes per month, the majority of which are theft crimes. According to Crime…

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